Flame of Pleasure Gemma Leveling Guide

Flame of Pleasure Identity

Gemma has been consumed by her inner Flames, and possesses the power to unleash Armageddon upon her enemies! Flame of Pleasure is well suited for Fire builds, whether they're DoT, Hit, or Minion. She creates zones of Purgatory to Brand enemies, granting her and her minions additional damage against them, and storing a portion of the damage they take to unleash Death by Fire. Flame of Passion is everything players want including damage & explosions!

Flame of Pleasure adds damage and AoE so there isn't a playstyle specific to Flame of Pleasure. Instead, your gameplay depends on the skill or build archetype you use. Purgatory has a huge AoE, and activates automatically after you unlock the level 50 Hero Trait Specialization Burning Depths so clearing normal enemies is a breeze. The more enemies you Brand within Purgatory, the more Death by Fire you Trigger, spreading the Brand's stored damage to clear an area around the slain enemy. Unlike many other Hero Traits, Flame of Passion's Hero Trait Specializations are all offensive. Therefore you need to pay close attention to your defenses on gear and Talents making character building a little more difficult on her.

Keywords

• Purgatory - If the max number of Brands within a Purgatory is not reached, a random enemy within the area will be inflicted with a Brand. A Purgatory has a range of 8m, lasts for 4s, and has a cooldown of 6s.
• Brand - Deals additional damage to Branded enemies. Records the damage enemies receive, then removes life according to the recorded damage when inflicting Death by Fire.
• Death by Fire - Removes life equal to the damage recorded by Brand from all enemies in an area. The initial radius of Death by Fire is 5m. After Death by Fire is triggered, all damage recorded by Brand is removed.

Treasure Troves

Treasure Troves are a way to super-charge your leveling experience. They give vastly more experience than regular zones and yield exclusive Legendary items. You need to complete each of them once for a Talent Point. For an easier leveling experience, you repeat the Treasure Trove until you're 8-10 levels above the zone, then rush through the next few areas. Follow your side quest to find the Treasure Trove locations.

Keep an eye out for the following Legendary items as you clear Treasure Troves.

• New Ear Hills (L7): Look out for Pentagram Astrolabe, Lonesome, Rock Lizard's Skull and Glorious Journey.
• Nectar Valley (L16): Look out for Omniscient Prototype, Dragon Scale Shoes.
• Dawn Avenue (L27): Look out for Scarlet Decree, Chain of Resistance and Omniscient Prototype.
• Sanctuary of Solitude (L35): Look out for Lonesome and Pentagram Astrolabe.
• Silver Sands' End (L44): Look out for Chain of Resistance, Furious Man's Body and Scarlet Decree.
• Hall of Grandiosity (L54): Here you should farm to level 60 to reach your next Hero Trait before completing the campaign. Look for, Furious Man's Body, Boom Gloves and Boor's Iron Crown.

Leveling Tips and Tricks

• Your first active skill slot (top left in the Skills menu) is your "Main Skill," this matters because many items and Hero Traits have effects that only apply to the Main Skill.
• If you're ever in doubt of where to go, click the campaign quest on the left of your screen and a golden path shows you the way.
• This guide assumes you get most of your levels through Treasure Troves and rush to the objectives in other zones for maximum efficiency.
• When allocating Pact Points, prioritize Elemental Resistance first, then select Damage nodes until you fill the section. If you have leftover points, put them into Drop nodes as you begin farming the Netherrealm.
• Complete all 10 Levels of the Hero Forge to unlock all of your Hero Trait abilities and gain 6 additional Talent Points.
• All support gems become available from the Skill Shop at level 55. At this stage cross reference with the embeds to make sure you're set up for the Netherrealm.
• In Chapter 3 gear you find comes with varying amounts of Energy, after changing your gear, be sure to go to the Energy Menu under Skills to reassign missing Energy.

Equipment & Stat Priorities

Core Skill

• Groundshaker is an extremely high damage Demolisher Skill. Convert all of it's damage to fire damage using the God of Might tree to record massive instances of damage you can then remove with your Brand.
• Use Compound Potion to quickly regenerate Life and mana whenever needed.
• Leap Attack allows you to quickly traverse zones and can be used with all Swords, Axes and Hammers.
• Activate Bloodthirst for a large Attack Speed Bonus.
  • Maintain it at all times to increase your damage and increase the speed of your Leap Attack.
• Bull's Rage provides a significant bonus to Melee Damage and Skill Radius at the cost of spending Life.
  • Support this skill with Deathwill to bypass the steep Life cost.

Leveling Progression

WARNING: The following levels are a guideline, you might complete the quest/unlock the Skill a few levels early, or a few levels later!

Talents

Traits, Relics and Memories

Hero Traits

Relics and Memories

Look for any combination of the following stats on your Hero Relics and Memories;

Divinity Slates

After defeating the Steel Forge Timemark 3 Watcher and completing the Netherrealm quest you unlock the Divinity Slate Talents. These can be farmed from different forms of content, but primarily drop from the Cube of Rapacity. Look to brand Divinity Slates with the following nodes;

Pacts

The Netherrealm

Racing through your Netherrealm quests as quickly as possible results in you becoming under leveled for the required zones to progress further, stay within 3 levels of the zones you're completing to avoid a harsh experience penalty. Check out our How to Progress the Netherrealm if you're unsure of anything.

Here's a list of things to do while progressing the early stages of the Netherrealm;

• Spend Black Gold at the Trader Edwin's Black Market to look for gear upgrades once reaching the Netherrealm.
• Level 60, The Trade House is unlocked. Be sure to read and understand our Trade House for Beginners Guide before making any big purchases.
• Higher item levels of gear come with higher quantities of Energy. Look to improve your current gear with items that have increased Energy so that you can use more Support Skills.
• Utilize Prototype Crafting and Enchanting to greatly increase the power of gear you come across. It costs very low amounts of Flame Sand to lock 1 good affix in place and reroll up to 4 new modifiers. Legendary Gear with Legendary Aptitude allows you to roll mods and craft on those items well.

Transitioning to Endgame

Weapon

A Two-Handed Weapon with high DPS is the primary source of all your damage.

• Search Beacons or the Trade House for items with any of the following modifier on Two-Handed Swords or Axes;
  • Strength / Dexterity
  • Physical Damage added to Gear
  • Gear Physical Damage
  • Fire Damage added to Gear
  • Gear Attack Speed
  • Critical Strike Rating
• Craft using prototype crafting until you have a 400 DPS weapon. This is more than enough to take you into Timemark 7.
• Enchant the item to finish it.

Remaining Gear

Focus on crafting the remainder of your Armor and Jewelry with the following goals in mind;

• Cap all of your Resistances at the 75% maximum.
• Have a high Life pool. 4000 is a good target.
• Increase your Physical or Fire damage
• Increase your Attack and Cast Speed
• Reach 10 stacks of Tenacity Blessings to enable Varagon Shroud's Attack Speed and Critical Strike bonus.

Legendary Items

• The Chain of Resistance is a very common item that provides a large amount of Skill Radius when clearing beacons, as well 50% increased Area Damage against bosses.
• Pale Mist's Embrace causes a percentage of your bonuses to Skill Radius to also be applied to Area Damage.
• Resolution Steps provide Movement Speed, Life and grant an additional Tenacity Blessing.
• Steel Stagnation is the best option for Demolisher builds, even more so if you have the Restoration Speed corrosion.

Set Items

• Voyager's Commemorative Boots
• Voyager's Commemorative Brooch
• Voyager's Commemorative Cape
• Voyager's Commemorative Cufflinks
• Voyager's Commemorative Goggles
• Voyager's Commemorative Pinky Ring
• Voyager's Commemorative Strap

Continue the Journey

Congratulations on completing the Flame of Pleasure leveling guide! To continue your Endgame journey check the Hero Rankings to see what other Hunters are playing.

Credits

Written by: Milkybk_
Reviewed by: Tenkiei, Xtra37